Sean's DW Blood Tanky DPS

I'm planning to build my duelist based on your build, just one question:

Do the 3 "Two Handed Speed/Damage" nodes in the beginning affect DW in any way? Or does DW count as two handed?

EDIT: NVM that, I somehow managed to open a wrong build link. :D

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Destructodave wrote:

Anyways, I'm sure he is farming ok. The only thing that ever gave any of my duelists any trouble whatsoever, is void bringers. Map bosses, no problem, other mobs, no problem. Void bringers though, rediculous. Mainly because I use cleave. If I would just quit being stupid and go lightning strike instead, I would mow them down just the same as the other mobs.

are Void Bringers those stupid dogs in docks act 3? I like this area however those mobs with breath attack hurt so much. Anyone know is this chaos damage or other one ? I thought it was cold, change my resists to max it but still hurt when they attack.

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Golfik wrote:

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Destructodave wrote:

Anyways, I'm sure he is farming ok. The only thing that ever gave any of my duelists any trouble whatsoever, is void bringers. Map bosses, no problem, other mobs, no problem. Void bringers though, rediculous. Mainly because I use cleave. If I would just quit being stupid and go lightning strike instead, I would mow them down just the same as the other mobs.

are Void Bringers those stupid dogs in docks act 3? I like this area however those mobs with breath attack hurt so much. Anyone know is this chaos damage or other one ? I thought it was cold, change my resists to max it but still hurt when they attack.

Fire damage, and yes even with max resists they can and will melt you, esp. if they are splitting or have splitting.

My first duelist lvl 70, died with max fire resists to a hasted splitting one. My 2nd duelist, lvl 68, died to a pack of splitting, bad fire resist.

You could use a fire flask, but it run out or bad mistake and melted.

My guy is actually fine for SC. I usually do more dps then any of the other 2h melee(I ask because I wanna make random 2h'ers like sweepers). Id say dw cleave or maybe dw in general blows ass for HC, though.

It is the crappiest part of that map. The docks is a ranged character's wet dream for farming. For melee, as par the course through the whole game, we get stupid things like void bringers to ruin our day. This game is heavily heavily favored for ranged.

apart from those dogs i really like this area. i need to think of a way to deal with them. However due to their attack type even though they die fast they turn mid cast if you run behind them (or whirling blade past).

Might need to test totem but don't have it atm

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Golfik wrote:

apart from those dogs i really like this area. i need to think of a way to deal with them. However due to their attack type even though they die fast they turn mid cast if you run behind them (or whirling blade past).

Might need to test totem but don't have it atm

Play LS and you shouldn't have a problem killing them from ranged. Just using cleave, dual strike, etc. something in actual melee range is when you are going to have a tough time with them. I killed whole packs playing around with a lvl 1 lightning strike last night. I dont really want to play lightning strike, but if you want to be an effective melee, you might as well.

Hey,

I've modified the "finished build" with some small changes around a few points in the tree that I think might be a better choice to increase both dps and survivability. (Not that you'll get to 110 points any time soon :P).

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lenomilo wrote:

Hey,

I've modified the "finished build" with some small changes around a few points in the tree that I think might be a better choice to increase both dps and survivability. (Not that you'll get to 110 points any time soon :P).

Spoiler

http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree/AAAAAgQBAAYB5wSxBS0OrRIgFCAUUhR1FfYY2xv6HcohYCXfKLUo2ykuKaUs6TIJNJM26DpSOrM67T38QKBDnEd-Sn1MYFBHUFBT31RJVw1YY1ivWNtbPVuvXQBei18_YEtgiGFSYnljcGegah507XTxeA1673y4hNmE74d2jM-ZK5uDnrmezZ_LpBmnMKgYq8Ws6rndvqfBi8HYxtjKkMzbz_jQR9Du0iHT_Nlh3Q3fv9_v51LvDu9O7-PyL_ZI96P8xVYEhmC3FziW4mGVm2WnMHcm-K5QqW5N46xZ_o-uDA==

Why do you skip Blood Drinker? Seems really dumb to skip something like that

Also you take a 4% attack speed node in the bottom right but aren't taking the 6% attack speed at duelist start.

Is anyone in Merciless and having a relatively easy time with this build?

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Is anyone in Merciless and having a relatively easy time with this build?

Soloing 58zones @ 48lvl with a decent gear.

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plasmatorture wrote:

Why do you skip Blood Drinker? Seems really dumb to skip something like that

Also you take a 4% attack speed node in the bottom right but aren't taking the 6% attack speed at duelist start.

Smart, I guess I forgot about that so change one +dmg node for blood drinker and 4% for 6% sounds even better.